Id return to. Visiting friends i dont think id ever go back there to live you know what i live there again i dont know so im not sure. Witness global news that matters. Made for mines. China defends its role as africas biggest lender beijing says it doesnt sent debt traps and only offers the continent true friendship. Baby eels a delicacy in china and a multimillion euro business thats why smugglers want a piece of the pie. And from fame and fortune to bankruptcy a german tennis Star Auctions off his most prized possessions. I mean physical and lets do business outside forces trying to vilify beijing thats what chinas top diplomat has told senior ministers visiting from africa say council one nice is chinas approach to cooperation with africa is different to that of traditional powers its not pursuing selfish geo political gains or engaging in debt trap diplomacy but rather 2 sided sustainability china calls it true friendship but some say its a one sided affair ministers from 50 african countries met with their counterparts in beijing this week to discuss further Economic Cooperation and to reject criticism theyre generating unsustainable levels of debt. You dont deny she voted for some time some outside forces have tried to vilify and undermine china africa cooperation by cooking up accusations of socalled neo colonialism and death traps and so on which are totally groundless and are not accepted by African People on 2 such attempts expose a total lack of respect for africa lack of understanding about china and absence of knowledge about the true friendship between china and africa that has stood the test of time. Which africa is indeed deep in debt 40 percent of the regions countries are at high risk of debt distress according to the i. M. F. Twice the rate from 5 years earlier and china is the continents biggest external creditor owning a 5th of all african debt but multilateral private lenders own even more and private Loan Interest rates account for more than half of all debt servicing meaning africas debt problems in fact go well beyond china so dont worry in bira joins us now from nairobi and so joy have we been getting a role the time is chinese debt good it well china has been accused. Diplomacy and in this case you know a lot of people saying china is exploiting the developing countries last of which are on the african continent but if you look at the journey that most african countries have hired over the past 60 years dating back to colonial times some would actually say that china is giving africa what it has always wanted to hire but did not have which is Infrastructure Development and that is where the biggest chunk of africa is loans is going into the construction of roads construction agree ways like this then it gets really can you. Tell us more about kenya is chinese funded by a project because i believe can you got itself into quite a lot of debt over town. Well just to put it into perspective just like kenya most african countries have a great culture as the backbone and to get their produce from the farm to the markets you need a good road network and you also need a good transport system and its all kenyas biggest need right now is Infrastructure Development and connectivity and kenya looked at the standard gauge really as as the gateway to opening out the rest of east africa so kenya to a loan of about 3600000000. 00 from china to develop this tenet gets really review some of that into cost it comes out to 3600000000. 00 it has been criticised by some Economic Experts who say that kenya could have constructed as kind of gauge really at a much cheaper cost but then again on the other hand if you look at the conditions that china has given with a Standard Gauge Railway for instance we have China Companies that are constructing its railway and also they are managing the side of these really at the moment they will continue to do so for about 8 more years before we can see it being fully managed by kenyan citizens and so this is where i think the critics come in and say this could be the. Diplomacy issue with china but china is claiming that they are offering a shared future to the african countries enjoy just very briefly ugandas president has used the trip to hit out at the world bank this sounds like a clash of east west institutions. Yeah and to think that the world bank has funded some of ugandas project since i think in 1000 he when he actually said. Contacted or uganda contacted the world bank for alarm to construct uganda is really and the world bank claims to have you know responded by saying pantries constructing railways should use their own money to do so is an allegation you know you cannot take likely i do not know how the world bank is going to react to this one but he claims that the world bank has not had Infrastructure Development as part of its projects in uganda territory thank you very much for joining us. The illegal wildlife trade features extensively in our news reports but have you ever heard of smuggling its on the rise while wild wide eels stalks to cloy. This week are not copes is tending to 1400000 tiny eels just delivered from british waters in this stage of development the thin bony fish are almost transparent which is why theyre called glassy eels european ills are facing extinction stocks have been in decline for 3 decades and so far there are no reliable methods of breeding them entirely in captivity is giving them advice it is possible now to get the ills to reproduce and keep them alive for a while but we still dont know what nutrients the young eels need at a certain stage of their lives and the and start. A lot of. These young fish need optimal conditions which means they should leave the basins at the German Fisheries Association as soon as possible and the return to natural waters to grow to full size. Are not cope and his colleagues want to be sure that the glass eels are not fished up and sold to farms in asia where eels are great delicacy. Of the. Only word addressing this issue as far back as 1996 its a war its fought it almost lost a lot of it then we said we were already exporting too many of them to asia although it was legal at the time and the price had run away for normal users. They can all of that in the meantime ill prices have reached record highs a kilogram of glass eels sells for 400. 00 euros in germany in asia for 10 times that that profit margin has attracted organized crime as authorities are beginning to realize their last ill smuggling is extremely lucrative and considerable quantities are being moved around a kind of you can even compare. With the drug trade for Profit Margins or similar trafficking in glass eels can make you the same kind of money is not katic strafford king. The Customs Officials say its a fairly new phenomenon but that theyre growing more aware of the problem airport controls recently turned up 100000 live glassy eels and a raid uncovered an illegal collection point where the ills were being packed up for the long journey. Plans the they put them into suitcases with ice cold water and added ice water in styrofoam bottles to keep the temperature down around freezing. That way the animals metabolism will stay low and they have a good chance of surviving the trip and really some good news for animal protectionists and even lovers most of the glass eels confiscated in frankfurt were put in the rhine river where theyll be able to continue developing normally. A german sporting hero is auctioning off his most prized possessions bars becca was the youngest winner at wimbledon at the age of just 17 went on to win 49 titles over his career and 20000000 euros in prize money now the champion needs to clear his debts a British Court declared him bankrupt in 2017 is trophies are up for auction along with rings watches well up suits tennis shoes sweat bags and a pair of old saw a last year back a holt of the sale of his personal souvenirs at the last minute claiming diplomatic immunity from Central African republic that didnt work now the hammer is coming down on 82 items of its talk about the fame fortunes and financial troubles of mr becker with max merrill from our sports desk max just how much in debt is this guy who was once a very rich man yet its tough to tell exactly how much because several millions i mean for instance last year he reportedly still owed a bank in london 3 over 3 and a half 1000000 euros and he tried removing a house in spain with 6000000 that was deemed not suitable to repay the euro and the problem also is that he owes money in so many different places for instance in spain he was taken to court over unpaid work on his villa in new york or in germany had to repay taxes in switzerland and after his wedding in 2009 the pasta even sued him so its coming at him from all angles and of course hes paying lawyers left right and center so i think youve looked at the option online is he isnt getting much 1st. Well its early days yet the bidding is still open till july 11th and some of the watchers of actually attracted interest but thats in the region of 2 to 4000 euros and the trophies which are worth about 10000 euros replicas of the trophies he won they havent received any bids yet and things like his sweaty clothes shows just how desperate he is some of which have been reacquired from places like the tennis hole of fame they actually havent attracted bids yet but selling a watch for 100 euros i saw online myself thats not going to cover his dates is it no it isnt and i mean its a curious situation he finds himself in the so many things that are being auctioned off 100 almost 100 items. In the coming days well see how much of it actually even get sport but its not going to solve this issue because tried out some creative ways of trying to avoid insolvency tell us more. Possible that he tried to get him get out and after he was initially declared bankrupt in 2017 and then in june of last year he tried to delay this whole process by seeking diplomatic immunity as you mentioned he claimed he was the sporting cultural and humanitarian attache to the e. U. For the Central African republic she was and they denied this and they were also quick to point out that his diplomatic passport was actually not authentic so he waived that immunity back in december and now were back to square one Good Business need to be creative but would you say is a victim of teen stata be i mean he started so young he was so successful at a very early age i think its an aspect of this yes in 95 as you mentioned became the youngest wimbledon winner and also the 1st unseeded witness so he came from absolutely nowhere and was thrust into this glitz and glamour life making as you pointed out 20000000 on court but off the court well its estimated 100000000 euros so the amount of money hes made in his career it really leads you to question how hes been able to get himself into the situation hes been through very costly divorces and was and he still works as a pundit so that of mismanagement from him as well. Next more lead nice doing business with you. Kick off. 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